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Auto-Callable Structured Products – the Wall Street House Always Seems to Win

September 24, 2018

The Wall Street Journal, on September 12, 2018 (“FANG Stock Play Can Fall Short”), noted that investors looking to reap the gains of highflying technology stocks while avoiding risk – through the purchase of “auto-callable” structured note products – are finding they can’t do both. These structured notes “are often sold to mom-and-pop investors seeking […]

Auto-Liquidation Brokerage Firms Threaten Investors

September 29, 2015

A reported in a recent blog posting by the Securities Litigation & Consulting Group, (“The Recent Market Turmoil Spells Trouble for ‘Auto-Liquidators’ like Interactive Brokers”), brokerage firms that require their clients to agree to the automatic liquidation of positions when their accounts are in a margin deficit face renewed questions after the wild stock-market gyrations […]